Well, don't need much of an introduction from me, do you?

That did it quite well.

Numbers right up front, my goodness.

Actually, from the Southeast Asian capital city of the Philippines, Minola.

I am Art Bell, and this is Coast to Coast AM the weekend version, and I'm here to report to you tonight.

First of all, all of you who wrote to the newspaper to try and correct that horrid little letter that's been circulating around the world,

I bet it's gone around the world a hundred times more in the time that it's been out, even more.

And then, of course, it was published by a newspaper here the other day in the

Philippines, and all of you wrote messages to them, and of course I did as well. And they have

published a retraction today, which I shall now read to you. And you can see it on the website

as well. It says, email hoax at BC column.

The Chronicle was caught off guard last Wednesday when a columnist reprinted an email sent by a regular contributor of the orbiter, a biweekly column of a lawyer.

He's a lawyer.

Anilo Bentugin, who is also a city lawmaker.

The Chronicle is retracting the story published last Wednesday, as it apologizes to radio

commentator Ard Bell, who emailed Van Tugan himself to complain that the email purportedly

written by him was a hoax, as he already denied several years ago.

Van Tugan admits in his column this Sunday's issue that he received the forwarded email from Eddie Managetet,

a former mentor of Holy Name University here, who is now based in the United States.

See, it goes around the world.

Bantugin said that, I'm quoting here, I'm not just slaughtering the context, I'm quoting exactly.

Van Tugan said that he, quote,

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